Description : AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OXYRHYNCHUS Late Dynastic Period, 21st - 35th Dynasty, Circa 715 - 332 B.C. With a distinctive long, down-turned snout, the fish is crowned with uraei, cow's horns and sun disc with double suspension loop behind, wearing a broad beaded collar around its gills and with hollow eyes recessed for inlay, perched on a sled, supported by its tail, rear fin and a striated prop below its belly, 11.6cm long, Exhibited: 'Egypt Through the Artist's Eye', Holt Festival, Norfolk, 18th - 27th July 2014, exh. no. 28 and with Galerie Max Mayer and Chewday's 'The Middle Class go To Heaven', part of Condo 2017. Literature: For an example of an Oxyrhynchus fish crowned with horns and sun disc, but balanced on a pylon, see Madeleine Page-Gasser and Andre Weise, with Thomas Schneider and Sylvia Winterhalter, 'gypte, Moments d'ternit. Art gyptien dans les collections prives, Suisse' (Mainz, 1998) pp. 281-282, no 190. Provenance: Private collection, France, acquired in the 1970s.
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n° 7 Titre : Egyptian Bronze Oxyrhynchus, PÉRIODE : 1998 Dimensions : 11.6cm long Notes : Antiquities Chiswick Auctions, Salle de vente
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